Board Actions

Actions taken during the week ending February 18, 2006

Regulations And Policies

Nontraditional Mortgage Products -- extension to March 29, 2006, of the comment period on proposed interagency guidance on nontraditional residential mortgage products.
-Announced, February 17, 2006

Regulation Y -- final amendments to increase the asset-size threshold for defining small bank holding companies and to modify the criteria for determining eligibility under the Board's small bank holding company policy statement and capital guidelines (Docket No. R-1235).
-Approved, February 16, 2006

Testimony And Statements

Monetary Policy Objectives -- statement by Chairman Bernanke before the House Committee on Financial Services, February 15, and the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, February 16, 2006.
-Authorized, February 13, 2006